Arts guide: exhibits in Italy

Raphael versus Picasso in Vicenza

(ANSA) - Rome, October 5 - The following is a city-by-city
guide to some of Italy's art exhibitions:
FLORENCE - Palazzo Strozzi: Francis Bacon, including three
unfinished works never seen in Italy; until January 27.

PAVIA - Scuderie del Castello Visconteo: Renoir, A Life in
Painting; 30 paintings, pastels and sketches, until December 16.

ROME - Musei Capitolini: The Age of Equilibrium; an array of
ancient Roman statuary and decor highlighting the balance
achieved between Rome and its provinces between the reigns of
Trajan and Marcus Aurelius; third installment of the five-year
'Giorni di Roma' cycle ranging from the Republican Era to Late
Antiquity.
- Scuderie del Quirinale: Vermeer, The Golden Age of
Dutch Art; 8 masterpieces by Delft genius plus 50 by
contemporaries; until January 20.